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Tag Archives: Renewable Energy
Mayor’s responses to London Assembly energy and climate change questions
23 February 2011: Questions included Renewable Energy use by London Underground; police stations retrofitted under the Mayor’s RE:FIT programme; comment on the Mayor’s RE:NEW programme; why some lights can’t be switched off easily at tube stations; and funding of the Mayor’s electric vehicle programme.
Posted in Decentralised Energy, Energy Efficiency, News, Renewable Energy
Tagged Electric Vehicles, Mayor, Renewable Energy, Retrofit
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How local economies can benefit from renewable energy
16 February 2011:New Local Government Network (NLGN) report on opportunities for councils to make greater use of renewable energy systems and benefit financially through the use of the ‘Feed-in Tariff’ and forthcoming ‘Renewable Heat Incentive’. Download the report How local economies can benefit from renewable energy.
Identifying sustainable energy options for your area
15 February 2011: Local authorities are exploring opportunities and starting energy generation projects across the UK. With the right to sell electricity and set up energy companies, local authorities can earn money through financial incentives such as the feed-in tariffs and the renewable heat incentive. Renewable energy is an investment opportunity for local government. This Local Government Group publication highlights examples of councils and communities that are leading on energy generation. It explains what they did to start and fund energy projects and the benefits these projects have brought to their area and includes examples from Tower Hamlets, Islington and the City of London.
AEA Microgeneration Index
February 2011: Consultancy AEA have taken Ofgem’s Feed in Tariff (FIT) quarterly data reports of installations of qualifying renewable energy technologies, tidied up the excel spreadsheet data, to help provide a clearer regional breakdown of capacity and types of renewable energy systems installed. For London this goes down to individual borough reports.
Funding approved for new gasification project
9 February 2011:The London Waste and Recycling Board (LWARB) has today agreed a £8.9 million loan to Biossence East London Ltd to support the development of what will be one of the UK’s first large scale advanced waste to energy gasification plants. Anticipated to operational in 2013 the 19MW generator will turn 100,000 tonnes of waste each year into energy. The site has been bought from Ford, who will part-benefit from electricity generated by the plant. Further information on the LWARB press release. More on Bioessence here.
Posted in Decentralised Energy, News
Tagged Decentralised Energy, Funding, Havering, LWARB, Renewable Energy, Waste
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London Plan- Monitoring Energy and Carbon
7 February 2011: The London Plan Annual Monitoring Report has been published which provides information on two key per performance indicators of interest:
KPI 22: Reduction in CO2 emissions – which sets out a useful table showing a time series of sectoral emissions in London from 1990 to 2008, however, in relation to newer data the AMR states “No new data are available since the last AMR was published, with the most recent measurement of London’s CO2 emissions being the 2008 London Energy and Greenhouse Gas Inventory (LEGGI). It is anticipated that data on carbon dioxide emissions will in the future be published annually, but two years in arrears given the analysis required. Information for assessing the 2010 benchmark will therefore only be available in 2012.”
KPI 23: Increase in energy generated from renewable sources – the AMR states that “No new data have been collected in the last two years” but “The GLA has commissioned a new study that will investigate the potential for renewable energy and
also provide updated figures on the amount of current generation in London (the ‘London Renewable and Decentralised Energy Potential Study’).”
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Tagged Carbon Emissions, London Plan, Mayor, Planning, Renewable Energy
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FIT installation report
1 February 2011: Ofgem have just issued the first of what will be quarterly reports on the installation of Feed in Tariff (FIT) accredited generators. This report and spreadsheet provides detail on close to 20,000 installations accredited over the period April 2010 (when the FIT regime started) to December 2010. The spreadsheet provides geographical information) (but will need a bit of work to pull out the London numbers only). Download the ‘Feed-in Tariff Installation Report Dec 2010’ on Ofgem’s FIT webpage here.
Richmond schools to run on sun-power
28 January 2011: Three schools in Richmond’s Low Carbon Zone have celebrated the installation of solar panels on their buildings as a result of grants from the council and British Gas. Further news from Richmond here. More information on the ‘My Solar School’ programme by British Gas.
Posted in News, Renewable Energy
Tagged Low Carbon Zone, Photovoltaics, RE:CONNECT, Renewable Energy, Richmond, Schools
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RESTATS
January 2011: DECC website holding statistical data on renewable energy projects across the UK.
Ealing slick at cooking oil recycling
7 January 2011: An Ealing Council recycling centre is top of the tables for waste cooking oil collection. Greenford Recycling Centre has collected the most cooking oil for recycling in London, and the second highest volume in the country. Just one litre of used cooking oil can be converted into a new green fuel called LF100 to produce enough clean electricity to make 240 cups of tea. The total amount collected in Ealing is enough to power eight homes for a year or an energy-saving 20W light bulb for each Ealing resident for five and a half hours.
DECC Regional Renewable Energy Assessment Methodology
12 October 2010: To help ensure a robust evidence base to support the deployment of renewable energy, DECC has published a renewable and low-carbon capacity assessment methodology. The evidence produced by applying the methodology will help to support local authorities and communities to make the most of opportunities for renewable energy deployment in their areas.
Posted in Library, Renewable Energy
Tagged CLG, DECC, Local Authorities, Renewable Energy
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Towards zero carbon development in Ealing
September 2010: Towards zero carbon development in Ealing: Energy Evidence Base. This report establishes the rationale and viability of carbon emission saving targets in the borough and examines measures to promote sustainable design and construction.
Working jointly with the GLA and LDA, the council are also assessing the feasibility of decentralised energy networks within the borough. Phase 1 of this project was completed in May 2010 and encompasses a heat mapping exercise (post at the above link).